Attorney seeks to suppress confession

12:28 PM,
Apr. 5, 2013

Seth Fontenot

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Detectives violated Seth Fontenot's constitutional rights when they arrested him without telling him he was the prime suspect in a murder, his lawyer argued in court papers.

Attorney Thomas E. Guilbeau filed a motion on Wednesday to suppress statements Fontenot gave to Lafayette police Detective Larry Theriot just moments after the Feb. 10 shooting that killed Austin Rivault, 15, a student at St. Thomas More Catholic High School and a member of the school's lacrosse team.

Guilbeau argued the Louisiana constitution requires authorities to advise a person "fully of the reason for his ...